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   Re: [xml-dev] Why you should avoid Notation Declarations (by

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Richard wrote

> The consequence of this difference between DTDs and Schemas seems to
> be that if you want to use notations in documents and have them be
> both DTD- and Schema-valid, you must ensure that the notation names
> can be expressed in the instance without the use of a prefix.

Another consequence is that you can't (by default) access DTD Notations
in Xpath 2 / Xquery as (unlike, say the ID type) the differences
between the DTD typing and schema typing are irreconcilable when
building the Xpath model.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel/#infoset-mapping-document

      The following properties of the unparsed entity information item
      have no value: [notation name], [notation].


David


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